So no one can accuse K-pop star Hyuna of moving on too fast after the end of a long relationship. The songstress dated fellow K-pop-er E’Dawn (or just Dawn now) for 6 years before the couple announced their break up last year in December of 2022. Now to kick off the new year in 2024, Hyuna has debuted a new … Continue reading →
On one hand I am pleased he came clean but on the other hand oooof this one hurts because I really liked him and now he’s cancelled in my mind. Former Beast and now Highlight member Yong Jun Hyung, who I came across thanks to the K-drama Monstar years ago, was initially swept up in the Seungri/Jung Joon Young chatroom … Continue reading →
The stars were out at the VIP premiere for indie Korean movie Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet, and the presence mostly skewed young thanks to the headlining star that is Kang Ha Neul. Kang Ha Neul had half of his Korean Bu Bu Jung Xin onscreen brothers on hand to support him from Lee Jun Ki, Hong Jong Hyun, … Continue reading →
Whenever an idol boy wows me as an actor, I may love the darling to death but I remain blissfully uninvolved in his side career of the singing and dancing variety. K-pop is breezy fun but nothing I would spend time following along with. That said, to learn that the few idol boys who have wowed me are besties is … Continue reading →
How come no one told me my baby Seol Chan won an award! My bad, Seol Chan is just a character, he’s not really real, despite Yong Jun Hyung delivering a stellar rookie actor performance in making him feel so very real. The Korea Drama Awards took place earlier this month on October 2nd and I honestly paid no heed and … Continue reading →
Sometimes fashion magazines send famous stars to far flung places for a photo shoot, spending lots of travel moolah but forgetting to actually incorporate the pretty location into the pictures. Cosmopolitan Korea decided to focus on the flower and not the leaves for its September edition featuring lots of young, talented, up-and-coming musicians and actors. Or for many of these … Continue reading →
My Monstar babies! But my Monstar babies without my Star Chan! It’s like all the kids are home for the holidays minus the baby of the family, I’m happy but it just feels incomplete. Folks have been asking how the ratings for cable channel Mnet’s first drama the music youth series Monstar have been faring. It’s been doing gangbuster ratings … Continue reading →
When a beloved drama wraps filming always gives me the most bittersweet feeling. Sadness that it heralds the imminent end of the drama, happiness for the cast getting a rest and reprieve from what was surely a truly exhausting schedule of live-filming. Kim Da Hee (Da Hee of the girl group GLAM) posted a full cast and crew wrap picture … Continue reading →
My babies! My Monstar OTP! Is it going to be called Se-Chan or Seol-Yi? Have folks decided which mixed moniker fits our cutie pies the best? Ha Yeon Soo and Yong Jun Hyung literally went from “who are these people?” to “can I package them and take them home?” for me in the span of a week. I adore their … Continue reading →
Potential drama crack addiction alert! I’m still loving every minute of tvN’s Cyrano Dating Agency but I actually enjoy just watching it without the desire to recap it. The couple of the week stories are disposable narrative fun but nothing to write about, while the main cast is doing a fantastic job but their stories don’t yet have any meat … Continue reading →
